Bug 2348185 (CVE-2022-49257)

Summary: CVE-2022-49257 kernel: watch_queue: Fix NULL dereference in error cleanup
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-02-26 03:20:35 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

watch_queue: Fix NULL dereference in error cleanup

In watch_queue_set_size(), the error cleanup code doesn't take account of
the fact that __free_page() can't handle a NULL pointer when trying to free
up buffer pages that did get allocated.

Fix this by only calling __free_page() on the pages actually allocated.

Without the fix, this can lead to something like the following:

BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in __free_pages+0x1f/0x1b0 mm/page_alloc.c:5473
Read of size 4 at addr 0000000000000034 by task syz-executor168/3599
...
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]
 dump_stack_lvl+0xcd/0x134 lib/dump_stack.c:106
 __kasan_report mm/kasan/report.c:446 [inline]
 kasan_report.cold+0x66/0xdf mm/kasan/report.c:459
 check_region_inline mm/kasan/generic.c:183 [inline]
 kasan_check_range+0x13d/0x180 mm/kasan/generic.c:189
 instrument_atomic_read include/linux/instrumented.h:71 [inline]
 atomic_read include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:27 [inline]
 page_ref_count include/linux/page_ref.h:67 [inline]
 put_page_testzero include/linux/mm.h:717 [inline]
 __free_pages+0x1f/0x1b0 mm/page_alloc.c:5473
 watch_queue_set_size+0x499/0x630 kernel/watch_queue.c:275
 pipe_ioctl+0xac/0x2b0 fs/pipe.c:632
 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:874 [inline]
 __se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:860 [inline]
 __x64_sys_ioctl+0x193/0x200 fs/ioctl.c:860
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x35/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-02-26 21:04:45 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025022627-CVE-2022-49257-351f@gregkh/T

Comment 5 Avinash Hanwate 2025-02-27 16:24:22 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025022627-CVE-2022-49257-351f@gregkh/T